I am the son of Kathleen B. Freakley and Theodore Meyts (born Belgium) married in 1949 at Holborn. My mother died on 13 February 2016.
My uncle Arthur Vernon died in 1989, with two children still alive today - Timothy F (living in Germany) and Jill Cawte, living in Berkshire.
Daisy Alice was the daughter of Arthur Morris F by his first wife who died in childbirth of Daisy, and a few days later her first child died. Daisy was brought up in Arthur Morris's home when he remarried (to Mary Jane Claridge). Daisy never married. She helped bring up her three half-brothers "my boys" then lived alone in Wolverhampton and died there in a nursing home in about 1984 in her nineties.
Frederick died after a tooth extraction, he had an undiagnosed medical condition which nowadays would have required special precautions before any surgery. But in those days, the risk was unknown. The coffin with his body was returned to Wolverhampton by rail.
Arthur Morris was a guard on the GWR in Wolverhampton. I still have his uniform, bearing a cleaning label marked Oxley (the GWR depot).
Uncle Harold never married, because he had diabetes and he knew that he would not live long. He did not wish to subject a loved one to the grief of becoming a widow at an early age. I still have Harold's scales he used to weigh his daily rations.
Message to D Whit: if you are seeking to share a photo album with the Freakley family, I would be happy to view it or even give it a good home if you are prepared to part with it - my cousins do not appear interested in family history but I certainly am, in memory of my late mother.
I have just signed up to RootsChat and I amazed to find all this information about my family, passed down verbally, also on a website. I am glad to join this discussion board.
By the way, when my mother cleared Daisy's house in 1984, she found correspondence from an uncle or great-uncle Freakley who emigrated to the USA late 19th century. This correspondence has been lost by my brother. It appears, from their family names, that this branch of the family comprises Ben Freakley, US General at Fort Benning in Georgia. Youtubes of his speeches show a definite family likeness.
